Friday, 12 April 2013

Relentless Liars: The Great Green Edifice is Crumbling

The New
Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club emailed to invite me to attend a
“conversation on

climate change in a post-Sandy New Jersey” intended to focus
on the “impacts of fossil fuel pollution” later this month. “We need to take
action to address and prevent the future impacts of climate change. Hurricane
Sandy was the latest storm in an increasing trend of more extreme and severe
weather.”

There
isn’t “an increasing trend of more extreme weather” unless you include the
current cooling cycle that has been in effect for the last 17 years, causing
longer, more intense winters around the world. I doubt that the Greens can do
anything about the Sun which has been in a natural cycle of reduced radiation.

As for
hurricanes like Sandy, meteorologists will confirm that on average the U.S. can
expect two major storm systems, categories 3 to 5, every three years. In all
categories, the average is about five hurricanes that make landfall every three
years. So, there is no increasing trend of more extreme weather. There is just
the weather.

As far as
the Sierra Club and comparable multi-million dollar environmental organizations
are concerned, when they say that want to “prevent future impacts of climate
change” they are either delusional, thinking that anything can be done to prevent hurricanes, blizzards, and other
aspects of the weather or they are talking about imposing a carbon tax on the
emissions of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases. Congress has
already rejected that.

And it’s
not just the Sierra Club. The same day their invitation arrived, Friends of the
Earth emailed to say “The Pacific Northwest is
currently engulfed in a struggle over the dirty future of coal and coal exports
in the U.S. If the biggest coal companies in the world have their way, we could
have 140 million tons of coal barreling through Montana, Idaho, Washington and
Oregon each year. That’s up to 60
trains per day in some of our neighborhoods and more than 1,000ships a yearthrough
our sensitive waterways!” Can you say fear-mongering? Lies about coal? And a
total ignorance of the value to the economy of its use and export?

The Greens
regard anything that would provide energy for any reason to anyone as the enemy.

That is
why “a panel of experts will discuss fossil fuel projects in our state, their
impacts, and ways to reduce that pollution.” Fuel is not pollution. Fuel is what we use to heat or cool our homes, drive our
vehicles, provide electricity, and conduct the business of the nation. The air
and water in New Jersey is so clean we actually invite people to live here, start
businesses here, and to visit as tourists to enjoy it.“Cutting
greenhouse gas emissions from dirty fuel sources is critical to protecting New
Jersey” said the invitation. Carbon dioxide levels have actually been rising. More
lies. As James Taylor, the Managing Editor of Environmental and Climate News,
noted in March,

“New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration show atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise but
global temperatures are not following suit. The new data undercut assertions
that atmospheric carbon dioxide is causing a global warming crisis.”

Since carbon dioxide is vital to the growth of all
vegetation, from your flower garden to the abundance of crops that feed us and
all livestock, reducing it is a very bad idea.

Need it be said that the local chapter is also gearing up
to oppose a new natural gas pipeline for the state? Think jobs. Think lower
energy costs. Now extrapolate that to the Keystone XL pipeline and to other
expanded sources of energy and the benefit to the nation’s economy.

The old guard of the environmental movement is passing
from the scene and the entire edifice of the global warming hoax is crumbling.
Jim Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) since
1981 has announced his retirement. It was Hansen who told a congressional
committee in 1988 that the Earth was heating up. That was the same year that
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by two
United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization and the
United Nation Environmental Program.

Larry Bell, a columnist for Forbes magazine, recently
urged the U.S. to cease funding the IPCC along with the UN Framework Convention
on Climate Change. “While the amount we give to the UNFCC and IPCC may seem
like a tiny pittance in the realm of government spending largess, it’s
important to realize that (the) true costs of that folly amount to countless
billions in disastrous policy and regulatory impact.” Together they have
received a total average of $10.25 million annually, set to increase in the FY
13 budget request to $13 million. They are a total waste of money, representing
the greatest hoax of the modern era and the redistribution of our wealth.

Environmental organizations are all about controlling our
lives. In March, a peer-reviewed paper by the American Institute of Biological
Sciences titled “Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges” was
published in their annual journal BioScience. “Substantial numbers of people
will have to alter their existing behaviors to address this new class of global
environmental problems.”

Too many governments around the world, our own and
particularly those in Europe, have passed all manner of laws and invested
billions in “green energy” projects, only to discover they are a huge waste and
that ordinary people have other ideas regarding the technologies that actually
do enhance and improve their lives.

Greens are relentless liars and their lies appear daily
in our print and broadcast media. Reality, though, is impacting their efforts.
Facts are stubborn things.

Greens are far less interested in the environment than
they are in imposing restrictions on the use of energy and the general welfare
of humanity. It is pure fascism and always was.